adjective (costlier, costliest)
HELPNOTE You can also use more costly and most costly.
1 costing a lot of money, especially more than you want to pay:
Buying new furniture may prove too costly.
2 causing problems or the loss of sth:
a costly mistake / failure * Mining can be costly in terms of lives (= too many people can die).
costliness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for costly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does costly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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